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Whitehall Township has joined the ranks of Pennsylvania municipalities that have repealed their firearms ordinance and replaced it with an ordinance that governs only such explosives as fireworks. During Monday night's meeting, township commissioners voted unanimously to repeal the part of the current ordinance that specifically prohibits the discharge of firearms within township limits and leave the rest of the ordinance, which bans "discharge of rockets, fireworks of every nature whatsoever, powder or any other dangerous combustible material." Bob Weider of Bethlehem Township, representing Pennsylvanians for Self-Protection and the Lehigh Valley Tea Party, urged...

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Whitehall Township has joined the ranks of Pennsylvania municipalities that have repealed their firearms ordinance and replaced it with an ordinance that governs only such explosives as fireworks.During Monday night's meeting, township commissioners voted...

The boroughs of Alburtis and Macungie declared snow emergencies at the outset of a snow storm that the National Weather Service says should drop 3 to 5 inches on the Lehigh Valley Thursday morning through Thursday afternoon.Alburtis declared its snow...

Just a note of appreciation to the following during this deep freeze: neighbors who shoveled their sidewalks and made openings to the street, Waste Management workers who collected trash in zero degree weather, newspaper carriers, park employees who did a...

Cold in recent weeks has contributed to at least six deaths in the region, officials say.
Five of those fatalities, including two this week, were reported by the Montgomery County coroner, who expressed outrage over the incidents.
"No one gives a...

Although this winter has been lighter on snow than last year's, the deep freeze of 2015 is wreaking its own brand of havoc across the Lehigh Valley.
Arctic air was expected to push the mercury to a record low of minus 2 degrees late Thursday — negative...

An 86-year-old man was found lying outside away from his east Allentown home early Thursday and died of hypothermia, according to the Lehigh County coroner's office.
Raymond Sokalsky, of the 700 block of East Tilghman Street, was found about 4...

Waste Management is the new trash and recycling hauler for Whitehall Township properties.
The township entered a five-year contract with the provider for the removal of garbage, recyclables, yard waste, grass, leaves and Christmas trees, according to the...

Salisbury homeowners won't see changes to their property tax bills paid to the township in 2015, but they could see a reduction in their bills for trash service under a $12.5 million budget approved Tuesday by township commissioners.
The spending plan...

Waste Management Inc., the Houston-based trash hauling behemoth, has won its bid to serve Whitehall Township residents for the next five years beginning Jan. 1The $7.4 million contract was loudly debated before it passed in a 4-3 vote. Board President...

Whitehall Township has all but sewn up its 2015 budget.The $21.3 million plan will be voted on at the commissioners' next meeting on Monday. The budget will contain no tax increase, according to Jack D. Meyers, the township's deputy mayor.But before...

Two bids for Whitehall Township's garbage contract were tossed in the dustbin after paperwork errors took them out of the running.Commissioners previously decided to divide the township's garbage collection into three categories: landfill charges, payment...

Salisbury residents may not only see a reduction in their annual solid waste and recycling bill, but perhaps even a new hauler.
The township has had a contract with Waste Management to provide both services, but it expired June 30. Since then, the...

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Paul Copleman fears the government subsidies that make his company's wind turbines affordable may soon disappear. Greg Roth says cheap natural gas has...

The last day of the Northern Trust Open golf tournament brought lousy weather and similar golf swings.
This was the grand finale of the PGA Tour's West Coast swing. Other than James Hahn, there wasn't all that much grand going on Sunday at Riviera....

Tiger Woods bettered last week's miserable round of 82 with a first-day 47 at the opening round of Thursday's Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines.
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Fortunately, I was just an astronaut wannabe and not the real deal. But it's as close as this middle-aged space geek is going to get. That geekiness,...

Fueling up your car may one day be as easy as cleaning out the refrigerator or taking out the trash, according to Edmunds.com.
Here's a list of some of the innovations in alternative fuels being researched:
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